KPI Tree

Granola Metric

Meeting Intelligence

Attendance Rate = Actual Attendees / Invited Participants × 100

Meeting Attendance Rate measures the percentage of invited participants who actually attend a meeting. Low attendance suggests that meetings are perceived as low-value, poorly timed, or include too broad an invite list. High attendance indicates relevance and effective scheduling.

GranolaMeeting Intelligence

Meeting Attendance Rate

Meeting Attendance Rate measures the percentage of invited participants who actually attend a meeting. Low attendance suggests that meetings are perceived as low-value, poorly timed, or include too broad an invite list. High attendance indicates relevance and effective scheduling.

How to calculate meeting attendance rate

Attendance Rate = Actual Attendees / Invited Participants × 100

Why meeting attendance rate matters for Granola users

Persistent low attendance is a vote of no confidence in a meeting's value. When people consistently skip meetings, they are signalling that their time is better spent elsewhere - a message that should prompt organisational reflection rather than stricter attendance enforcement.

For Granola users, attendance data across meeting types reveals which meetings are genuinely valued and which are tolerated. This insight enables meeting portfolio rationalisation - keeping high-attendance, high-value meetings and reformatting or eliminating the rest.

Understand and act on meeting attendance rate with KPI Tree

Compare Granola participant data with calendar invite lists in your warehouse. Model attendance rates in KPI Tree and link them to meeting outcome effectiveness and meeting cadence optimisation.

Assign RACI ownership to meeting facilitators and review attendance patterns quarterly, restructuring or cancelling meetings with chronically low attendance.

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Meeting Frequency Rate = Total Meetings / Time Period

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